Reporter walks into tripwire flare while shooting for RT near Ukraine’s Kramatorsk (VIDEO)

RT’s freelance reporter, Graham Phillips, claimed to have been shot at by Ukrainian soldiers as he approached them to engage in dialogue near the town of Kramatorsk. However, the video he was shooting at the time reveals he triggered a tripwire flare.

That video up in a minute. I was wearing a 'Press' vest, tried
to engage in dialogue, Ukrainian soldier shot at me from
distance, Kramatorsk

As seen in the footage below, Graham Phillips is walking across a
field. As he gets closer to the Ukrainian soldiers and greets
them in Russian, also warning he is “press,” the trip
wire goes off.

In his further tweets Graham said the shooting still took place,
though it was not captured by the camera.

The journalist's previous record of reporting for RT has already
backfired on him. Two weeks ago Ukrainian radicals put a bounty
out on Phillips. The Right Sector reportedly offered $10,000 for the capture of “a Russian
spy.”

Yesterday, RT's Ruptly video journalists also came under fire from two APCs as their car was targeted near
the city of Kramatorsk. The journalists were en route to the town
of Dmitrovka, some 30 kilometers from Slavyansk.